update to the latest Firmware and perform a factory reset in recovery after that.

wipe data/factory reset in recovery (this will delete your data/settings):- Power off and then press Power and Volume up together for around 10 Seconds- be sure that the little arrow point on recovery (select with volume up, enter with volume down)- Then the open android with red triangle+"no command" is shown press Power and Volume up together again- Select Wipe data/factory reset with volume keys, confirm with power- After factory reset select reboot system now

After upgrading to nougat I still couldn't disable Google auto text services, which was causing the problem, so I Uninstalled Google play services which put it back to factory and opened a game on the phone, that forced an update which solved the problem.

After upgrading to nougat I still couldn't disable Google auto text services, which was causing the problem, so I Uninstalled Google play services which put it back to factory and opened a game on the phone, that forced an update which solved the problem.

Thanks ....Never thought of this before!!!

Uninstall Google play services with a system apps remover. And the game you played required Google play services so the system downloaded it from the play store.So how did you go about installing it as a system app ?

Didn't use a system app remover (though I do have Titanium). In Apps, force stop, disable - OS simply removes latest update to the system app removing the conflict. Even now I have stopped Google itself from updating as I don't want there to be another conflict

The update from google play was problematic so you removed it and disallowed the system to update ...

I think the solution is incomplete and bound to produce similar or other problems because of the necissity of the system to update google play services.

I think a better solution would be to remove the update as you did and then use a system app remover and remove google play services , then download and flash through twrp the latest minimal open gapps (pico version)

Why the minimal version ?Because many of the included apps in gapps or open gapps will cause problems , which is probably why there are problems in the first place in your case.

=====Even now I have stopped Google itself from updating as I don't want there to be another conflict=====

As I said before , disabling google play services udating is not a complete , permanent or disirable solution .